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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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out in tabular form for future reference, comparison being made with the records of over a quarter of a century ago (1901), the first year of the existence of the new Borough of Lambeth :—
| Death-rate. | 1927 | 1901 |
| General death-rate | 12.40 | 17.17 |
| Zymotic death-rate | 0.39 | 2.72 |
| Measles death-rate | 0.07 | 0.39 |
| Whooping Cough death-rate | 0.09 | 0.38 |
| Typhoid Fever death-rate | 0.009 | 0.076 |
| Diarrhoea death-rate | 0.10 | 0.91 |
| Scarlet Fever death-rate | 0.003 | 0.12 |
| Diphtheria death-rate | 0.10 | 0.16 |
| Smallpox death-rate | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Tuberculosis death-rates— | ||
| 1.01 | 2.29 | |
| 0.85 | 1.63 | |
| Infantile Mortality death-rate (under 1 year of age) | 37.92 | 139.38 |
| Child Mortality death-rate(between 1 and 5 years of age) | 8.72 | 22.81 |
The comparative rates for the Inner and Outer Districts of the
Borough, are as follows :—
Inner Districts—
General death-rate 13.17 20.9
Zymotic death-rate 0.55 3.1
Outer Districts—
General death-rate 11.92 13.9
Zymotic death-rate 0.29 1.2
N.B.—All death-rates are corrected as to the actual numbers of
deaths, and expressed in terms per thousand of the populations
(estimated by the Registrar-General to the middles of the
various years), with the exception of the infantile mortality
rates, which are expressed in terms per thousand of the total
number of uncorrected births registered.
The infantile mortality rates are again remarkable—the lowest
records in the statistical records of the Borough or the Parish,
whilst the child mortality (deaths of children between 1 and 5 years